Improvement in wool and cotton lapping machines



H N- RANGE.

WOOL AND COTTON LAPPING MACHINES. No.180,063. Patented J'u1y18. 1876.

Y z" V a WI TJVESSES I V IN- VEJVTOR @WZ@ Q 4 nnnoonn N. RANGE, OFBATTLE GREEK, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR 013 one HALF HIS RIGHT TO JESSE W.OOBDER AND AARON n. Koonna, OF

SAME PLACE.

MPRovEMENT IN wool. AND COTTON LAPPING mAci-nm-zs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. lS0,063, dated July 18,1876 application filed April 7, i876.

ings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part ofthis specification.

The object of my invention is to take the truck. Upon this roller theproduct is formed into a lap ready for the finisher-card.

I I represent two rollers, having their bearings in an oscillatingframe, J, pivoted to the main frame, said rollers resting alternately onthe apron D, and they are rocked backward and forward bymeans of armsff, at-

tachod to the truck B, and striking the lower end of the oscillatingframe J.

On one of the journals ofthe drum 0 is secured a cog-wheel, K, intowhich meshes a pinion, 0, upon a stud, i, in the side of the wool orcotton in the form of a roving, as truck B. On this stud is furthersecured a it falls from the doffer-card of the breaker, and forming itdirectly into a very'perfect lap, suitable for use in the finisher-card,with- A out first passing it through the intermediate process of adrawing, and the machinery necessary to that process; and to this endthe nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a lappingmachine, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertainsto make and use the same,-I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure l is a side elevation of my machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalvertical section of the same.

A represents the framework of my machine, constructed in any suitablemanner to receive the working parts thereof. B is a movable truck,provided with suitable rollers or wheels to, for the purpose of runningbackward and forward on a track, b, formed on or attached to the bottombed-pieces of the frame A. G is a drum, mounted in the outer end of thetruck B, around which passes an endless slat-apron, D, said apron alsopassing 'around a roller, E, at the other end of the truck.

Upon the apron D rests a roller, G, above the drum 0, the journals ofsaid roller being pressed upon by means of weights H, that slide onupright rods d 01, securedon the of the truck B, with its apron D,causes the roving to be folded over and lapped upon its clf, the rollersI I serving to securely press the same firmly into place, while thesteady movement of-the lap-roller and apron 1) slowly and evenly formsthe complete lap on the weighted roller Gr, the thickness thereof be inggoverned by the rapidity of the motion given the apron D, through theratchet and pawl regulating the same by the adjustment of the upper endof the lever L.

The rollers I are held down on the apron D by means of springs 1)operating on the lower end' of the frame J, the holes for the pivots ofsaid frame being elongated for that purpose.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l.- The combination of the apron D, laproller G, and the rollers I 1,arranged in an oscillating frame, J, substantially as and for thepurposes herein set forth.

rollers l l, and laproller G, all substantially 2. The combination ofaprons R and D, In testimony that I have hereunto set my hand this 10thday Of as and for the purposes herein set forth. February, A. D. 1876.

3.. The combination of the oscillating frame J, provided with rollers II, apron D, the lap-roller G, and the reciprocating truck B, I

all substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

HERGULE N. RANGE. \Vi'tnesses:

MARTIN METGALF, TOLMAN W. HALL.

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